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In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

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Script:
The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-america-fight-vietnam-war

Etymology

South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in (Hangul:한국인;hanja:韓國人), or Hanguk-saram (Hangul:한국 사람), both of which mean "Korean country people." When referring to members of the Korean diaspora, Koreans often use the term Han-in (Hangul:한인;hanja:韓人; literally "Korean people").

South Pole

True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Magnetic south is the direction towards the south magnetic pole, some distance away from the south geographic pole.

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html
In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

Barbaric act of the Korean military during the Vietnam War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

South Korean Troops Land in South Vietnam

Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?

Why did America fight the Vietnam War? The military suffered over 58,000 casualties, and America withdrew in defeat. What for? HistorianVictor Davis Hanson explains.
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Script:
The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-america-fight-vietnam-war

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html
In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry...

Barbaric act of the Korean military during the Vietnam War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conduc...

South Korean Troops Land in South Vietnam

Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?

Why did America fight the Vietnam War? The military suffered over 58,000 casualties, and America withdrew in defeat. What for? HistorianVictor Davis Hanson explains.
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In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

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In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

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The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
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The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-america-fight-vietnam-war

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html
In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry...

Barbaric act of the Korean military during the Vietnam War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conduc...

South Korean Troops Land in South Vietnam

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In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html
In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

Why did America fight the Vietnam War? The military suffered over 58,000 casualties, and America withdrew in defeat. What for? HistorianVictor Davis Hanson explains.
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The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
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The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-america-fight-vietnam-war

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published: 29 Mar 2015

Korean War "Summer Storm" 1959 US Army; The Big PIcture TV-445

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/korea_news.htmlFirst in a 3-episode summary of the Korean War, with guest war correspondent Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Episode 2: "Winter War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_0YWf8d38
Episode 3: "War's End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSba2AVfu98
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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published: 23 Nov 2014

South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After book launch (full version)

71 Into the Fire

A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.
Directed by : John H. Lee

published: 08 Jun 2014

Fleeing South Korea - 101 East

South Korea has built its success on a population driven to excel and willing to conform - for the good of their society.
The country has seen the fastest economic development of anywhere in the world, becoming synonymous with a highly educated workforce, cutting edge technology, and large powerful conglomerates.
But it's come at the cost of a stressful competitive society - with relentless working hours and a pressure to succeed.
Now, a new generation of South Koreans is saying enough is enough. They are voting for a more liberal and kinder lifestyle with their feet - leaving the country in droves.
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This film is a study of American soldiers helping a nation to rebuild itself. As seen in this film, the savagery and violence created by the war have been wiped away with the generosity and love of the American soldier on duty in Korea. Housing, public buildings, businesses and transportation facilities have been patched together or constructed from scratch. American Army know-how, Army supervision, and Army equipment have played a vital role in this rehabilitation, working closely with the Korean people. Just as important has been the creation of a new Republic of Korea Army. This small force which was available for Korea's defense prior to the outbreak of the fighting, is now a part of history. Thousands of inexperienced young men have been trained by battle-seasoned American and Korean soldiers and turned into a smooth, well-drilled modern army, equipped with American weapons.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was occupied by Japan (1910–45). At the end of World War II, the Japanese surrendered to Soviet and U.S. forces who occupied the northern and southern halves of Korea, respectively.
Despite the initial plan of a unified Korea in the 1943 Cairo Declaration, escalating Cold War antagonism between the Soviet Union and the United States eventually led to the establishment of separate governments, each with its own ideology, leading to Korea's division into two political entities in 1948: North Korea and South Korea.
In theSouthSyngman Rhee, an opponent of communism, who had been backed and appointed by the United States as head of the provisional government, won the first presidential elections of the newly declared Republic of Korea in May. In theNorth, a former anti-Japanese guerrilla and communist activist, Kim Il-sung was appointed premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September. In October the Soviet Union declared Kim Il-sung's government as sovereign over both parts. The UN declared Rhee's government as "a lawful government having effective control and jurisdiction over that part of Korea where the UN Temporary Commission on Korea was able to observe and consult" and the Government "based on elections which was observed by the Temporary Commission" in addition to a statement that "this is the only such government in Korea." Both leaders began an authoritarian repression of their political opponents inside their region, seeking for a unification of Korea under their control. While South Korea's request for military support was denied by the United States, North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, sparking the Korean War, the Cold War's first major conflict that continued until 1953. At the time, the Soviet Union had boycotted the United Nations (UN), thus forfeiting their veto rights. This allowed the UN to intervene in a civil war when it became apparent that the superior North Korean forces would unify the entire country. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea, with the later participation of millions of Chinese troops. After an ebb and flow that saw both sides almost pushed to the brink of extinction, and massive losses among Korean civilians in both the north and the south, the war eventually reached a stalemate. The 1953 armistice, never signed by South Korea, split the peninsula along the demilitarized zone near the original demarcation line. No peace treaty was ever signed, resulting in the two countries remaining technically at war. Over 1.2 million people died during the Korean War.
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This film is a study of American soldiers helping a nation to rebuild itself. As seen in this film, the savagery and violence created by the war have been wiped away with the generosity and love of the American soldier on duty in Korea. Housing, public buildings, businesses and transportation facilities have been patched together or constructed from scratch. American Army know-how, Army supervision, and Army equipment have played a vital role in this rehabilitation, working closely with the Korean people. Just as important has been the creation of a new Republic of Korea Army. This small force which was available for Korea's defense prior to the outbreak of the fighting, is now a part of history. Thousands of inexperienced young men have been trained by battle-seasoned American and Korean soldiers and turned into a smooth, well-drilled modern army, equipped with American weapons.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was occupied by Japan (1910–45). At the end of World War II, the Japanese surrendered to Soviet and U.S. forces who occupied the northern and southern halves of Korea, respectively.
Despite the initial plan of a unified Korea in the 1943 Cairo Declaration, escalating Cold War antagonism between the Soviet Union and the United States eventually led to the establishment of separate governments, each with its own ideology, leading to Korea's division into two political entities in 1948: North Korea and South Korea.
In theSouthSyngman Rhee, an opponent of communism, who had been backed and appointed by the United States as head of the provisional government, won the first presidential elections of the newly declared Republic of Korea in May. In theNorth, a former anti-Japanese guerrilla and communist activist, Kim Il-sung was appointed premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September. In October the Soviet Union declared Kim Il-sung's government as sovereign over both parts. The UN declared Rhee's government as "a lawful government having effective control and jurisdiction over that part of Korea where the UN Temporary Commission on Korea was able to observe and consult" and the Government "based on elections which was observed by the Temporary Commission" in addition to a statement that "this is the only such government in Korea." Both leaders began an authoritarian repression of their political opponents inside their region, seeking for a unification of Korea under their control. While South Korea's request for military support was denied by the United States, North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, sparking the Korean War, the Cold War's first major conflict that continued until 1953. At the time, the Soviet Union had boycotted the United Nations (UN), thus forfeiting their veto rights. This allowed the UN to intervene in a civil war when it became apparent that the superior North Korean forces would unify the entire country. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea, with the later participation of millions of Chinese troops. After an ebb and flow that saw both sides almost pushed to the brink of extinction, and massive losses among Korean civilians in both the north and the south, the war eventually reached a stalemate. The 1953 armistice, never signed by South Korea, split the peninsula along the demilitarized zone near the original demarcation line. No peace treaty was ever signed, resulting in the two countries remaining technically at war. Over 1.2 million people died during the Korean War.
South Korea After the Korean War | US ArmyDocumentary

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/korea_news.htmlFirst in a 3-episode summary of the Korean War, with guest war correspondent Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Episode 2: "Winter War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_0YWf8d38
Episode 3: "War's End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSba2AVfu98
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
The Korean War (in South Korea: Hangeul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, "Korean War"; in North Korea: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North and SouthKorea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.
Korea was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the closing days of World War II. In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and—by agreement with the United States—occupied Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south. By 1948, two separate governments had been set up. Both governments claimed to be the legitimate government of Korea, and neither side accepted the border as permanent. The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. On that day, the United Nations Security Council recognized this North Korean act as invasion and called for an immediate ceasefire. On 27 June, the Security Council adopted S/RES/83 : Complaint of aggression upon the Republic of Korea and decided the formation and dispatch of the U.N. Forces in Korea. The United States and other countries moved to defend South Korea.
Outmaneuvered and suffering heavy casualties in the first two months of the conflict, South Korean forces were forced back to the Pusan perimeter. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations contributed to the defense of South Korea, with the United States providing 88% of the soldiers. An amphibious UN counter-offensive at Inchon was launched, and cut off many of the North Korean attackers. Those that escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north all the way to the Yalu River at the Korea-China border, or into the mountainous interior. At this point, Chinese forces crossed over the Yalu and entered the war on the side of North Korea. Chinese intervention rapidly forced the United Nations Command back into South Korea, and the last two years of the war saw stalemate and attrition warfare. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice agreement was signed. The agreement established a new border between the Koreas close to the previous one and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile (4.0 km)-wide fortified buffer zone between them. Border incidents have continued to the present.
The war has been seen both as a civil war and as a proxy conflict in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. While not directly committing forces to the conflict, the Soviet Union provided strategic planning, weapons, and material aid to both the North Korean and Chinese armies. From a military science perspective, the Korean War was initially fought in a manner sequent of the mobile style of warfare that emerged in World War II, but by the second year of the conflict, fighting tended toward holding operations while the details of an armistice were debated. For the last two years of the conflict, World War I trench warfare tactics became the norm. The war also saw the first combat between jet aircraft—such as the F-86 Sabre used by the UN and the MiG-15 used by the Chinese—in warfare...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_G._Lucas
Jim G. Lucas (June 22, 1914 – July 21, 1970) was a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent." He also reported on the Vietnam War and wrote a book about his experiences, Dateline: Vietnam...

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/korea_news.htmlFirst in a 3-episode summary of the Korean War, with guest war correspondent Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Episode 2: "Winter War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_0YWf8d38
Episode 3: "War's End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSba2AVfu98
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
The Korean War (in South Korea: Hangeul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, "Korean War"; in North Korea: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North and SouthKorea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.
Korea was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the closing days of World War II. In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and—by agreement with the United States—occupied Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south. By 1948, two separate governments had been set up. Both governments claimed to be the legitimate government of Korea, and neither side accepted the border as permanent. The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. On that day, the United Nations Security Council recognized this North Korean act as invasion and called for an immediate ceasefire. On 27 June, the Security Council adopted S/RES/83 : Complaint of aggression upon the Republic of Korea and decided the formation and dispatch of the U.N. Forces in Korea. The United States and other countries moved to defend South Korea.
Outmaneuvered and suffering heavy casualties in the first two months of the conflict, South Korean forces were forced back to the Pusan perimeter. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations contributed to the defense of South Korea, with the United States providing 88% of the soldiers. An amphibious UN counter-offensive at Inchon was launched, and cut off many of the North Korean attackers. Those that escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north all the way to the Yalu River at the Korea-China border, or into the mountainous interior. At this point, Chinese forces crossed over the Yalu and entered the war on the side of North Korea. Chinese intervention rapidly forced the United Nations Command back into South Korea, and the last two years of the war saw stalemate and attrition warfare. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice agreement was signed. The agreement established a new border between the Koreas close to the previous one and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile (4.0 km)-wide fortified buffer zone between them. Border incidents have continued to the present.
The war has been seen both as a civil war and as a proxy conflict in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. While not directly committing forces to the conflict, the Soviet Union provided strategic planning, weapons, and material aid to both the North Korean and Chinese armies. From a military science perspective, the Korean War was initially fought in a manner sequent of the mobile style of warfare that emerged in World War II, but by the second year of the conflict, fighting tended toward holding operations while the details of an armistice were debated. For the last two years of the conflict, World War I trench warfare tactics became the norm. The war also saw the first combat between jet aircraft—such as the F-86 Sabre used by the UN and the MiG-15 used by the Chinese—in warfare...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_G._Lucas
Jim G. Lucas (June 22, 1914 – July 21, 1970) was a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent." He also reported on the Vietnam War and wrote a book about his experiences, Dateline: Vietnam...

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South Korea has built its success on a population driven to excel and willing to conform - for the good of their society.
The country has seen the fastest econ...

South Korea has built its success on a population driven to excel and willing to conform - for the good of their society.
The country has seen the fastest economic development of anywhere in the world, becoming synonymous with a highly educated workforce, cutting edge technology, and large powerful conglomerates.
But it's come at the cost of a stressful competitive society - with relentless working hours and a pressure to succeed.
Now, a new generation of South Koreans is saying enough is enough. They are voting for a more liberal and kinder lifestyle with their feet - leaving the country in droves.
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South Korea has built its success on a population driven to excel and willing to conform - for the good of their society.
The country has seen the fastest economic development of anywhere in the world, becoming synonymous with a highly educated workforce, cutting edge technology, and large powerful conglomerates.
But it's come at the cost of a stressful competitive society - with relentless working hours and a pressure to succeed.
Now, a new generation of South Koreans is saying enough is enough. They are voting for a more liberal and kinder lifestyle with their feet - leaving the country in droves.
More from 101 East on:
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more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/vietnam_news.html
In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

6:52

White Badge - ROK Search & Destroy Mission (Vietnam War Movie)

Korean troops in the Vietnam War seeking out Vietcong and VC sympathizers.
I have no ide...

Barbaric act of the Korean military during the Vietnam War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?

Why did America fight the Vietnam War? The military suffered over 58,000 casualties, and America withdrew in defeat. What for? HistorianVictor Davis Hanson explains.
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The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
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In mid December 1965, the Republic of Korea Army's Tiger Division conducts a combat patrol against the Viet Cong at Qui Nhon during the Vietnam War.
From US Army Staff FilmReport 66-7A, 1966.
Vietnam War playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF7FC7A2D880623F7
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Mechanized_Infantry_Division_(Republic_of_Korea)
The CapitalMechanized InfantryDivision (hangul: 수도기계화보병사단; hanja:首都機械化步兵師團), also known as Tiger Division (hangul:맹호사단; hanja:猛虎師團), is currently one of the six mechanized infantry divisions in the Republic of Korea Army. It is part of the VII Corps, 3rd ROK Army (TROKA), tasked with covering approaches to Seoul from North Korea and counterattack operations.
This division saw extensive combat both during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, where it was despatched in September 1965, as a part of the Republic of Korea's contribution to the South Vietnamese war effort. The 1965 deployment became possible when in August of that year the Republic of Korea's National Assembly passed a bill authorizing the action. Recently, elements of this division were sent as Republic of Korea's contribution to the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq...
Vietnam War...
The Capital Division arrived in South Vietnam on September 22, 1965. The Division was deployed just outside of Qui Nhơn in Bình Định Province, from where it could protect vital arteries such as Route 1 and Route 19, as well as rice-growing areas and foothills to the north and west.
The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division was stationed in the Qui Nhơn area prior to the arrival of the Capital Division and gradually turned over responsibility for the area during October 1965.
By June 1966 the Capital Division controlled all the area north of Qui Nhơn to the east of Route 1 and up to the base of Phù CátMountain. It extended its control also to the north and south of Route 19 up to the pass leading into An Khê. Working south along Highway 1 down toward Tuy Hoa and within Bình Định Province, the Division sent out reconnaissance parties and carried out small operations as far south as the border between Bình Định Province and Phú Yên Province.
Korean soldiers that volunteered for service in Vietnam were given bonuses: they would “receive credit for three years of military duty for each year served in Vietnam as well as additional monetary entitlements; further, combat duty would enhance their future Army careers.”
All the ROKA units sent to Vietnam (the Tiger Division, White Horse Division and (Blue Dragon) Brigade) were chosen because they were considered to have the longest and best records from the Korean War.
The Tigers were considered uncanny for their ability to search territory and smoke out enemy soldiers and weapons. They would plan operations meticulously and sometimes even rehearse it beforehand. The soldiers would seal off a relatively small area, no more than 9 or 10 square kilometers. Troops would be brought in by air and land, but would arrive at the same time to maximize the chokehold. Slowly but surely the cordon would be tightened, and everyone and everything would be searched. Civilians were separated and interrogated, routinely offered rewards if they cooperated. It was not unusual for an area to be searched three or four times by different platoons. To prevent enemy breakouts, the Koreans had special reaction forces that could plug holes in the perimeter. GeneralWilliam R. Peers considered the Koreans the best at these so-called "cordon and search operations."
The Division returned home March 11, 1973...

6:52

White Badge - ROK Search & Destroy Mission (Vietnam War Movie)

Korean troops in the Vietnam War seeking out Vietcong and VC sympathizers.
I have no ide...

Barbaric act of the Korean military during the Vietnam War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Vinh_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Dai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nhi_and_Phong_Nhat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_My_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lai_Daihan
Tay Vinh massacre
The Tay Vinh massacre was a series of massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 1966 and March 17 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in Tay Vinh village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
During the special operation, Tiger Division of the South Korean Army assaulted 15 hamlets in Tay Vinh village.
In the one hamlet, the Korean soldiers rounded up 68 villagers in single place and fusilladed. Only 3 villagers survived.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army conducted similar massacres in Binh An village on the same time.
Go Dai massacre
The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet, Binh An village, Tay Son District of Binh Dinh Province in South Vietnam.
The Tiger Division of the South Korean Army killed 380 villagers within an hour.
They gathered 380 inhabitants, and they slaughtered them all during one hour.
Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre
The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre was a massacre conducted by the 2nd Marine Brigade of the South KoreanMarines on 12 February1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat village, Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam.
After the massacre, US marines and South Vietnam Army reached the village on the day; they treated and transported surviving villagers to the hospitals.
When the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhi villagers had a close relationship with U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army.
On 25 February the next massacre occurred in Ha My village.
Ha My massacre
The Ha My massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Ha My village, Quang Nam in South Vietnam. The victims were 135 women, children and elders from the thirty households.
After the massacre, the South Korean Marines bulldozed a shallow grave and buried the victims' bodies en mass.
Former ROKVietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding OfficerLieutenant generalChae Myeong-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army GeneralWilliam Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korea replied that the massacre was a plot of the Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
On 10 January1970, ColonelRobert Morehead Cook, United States Army inspector general reported the massacre was conducted by the South Korean Marines.
The Korean soldier often killed women after raping them in a brutal way, and in particular, according to the Local villager, the Korean forces were dreads for women.
At least 9,000 of private citizens are killed by the Korean military .
The U.S. forces examined that they transferred the Korean military to the area that was not considered to be a problem even if they murdered anyone.
After the war the Memorial Tower for the victims was built in the village. The victims' names are listed on the stone monument.
Interview to Chae Myeong-shin Vietnam dispatch forces Commander in chief by Hankyoreh performed in November, 2000, Chae Myeong-shin confessed that there were conflicting perspectives between United States and South Korea, because Americans lacked knowledge of guerrilla tactics, however Americans fully adapted the South Korean methodology later.
A Lai Daihan(Lai Tai Han) is a person born to a South Korean father and a Vietnamese mother during the Vietnam War.
"Lai," which is a word, means "mixed blood" including insulting meaning, and "Daihan" is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Korea .
Lai Daihan was left by the withdrawal of the Korean military by the Paris agreement and collapse of the later South Vietnam Government . They were persecuted as "a child of the enemy force".
The children of mixed racial origins who were born after Vietnam and Korea reopen an economic exchange in 1992 is called "New Lai Daihan".
The exact number of Lai Daihan is unknown. According to Pusan daily report, there are at least 5,000 and 30,000 at most.

Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?

Why did America fight the Vietnam War? The military suffered over 58,000 casualties, and America withdrew in defeat. What for? HistorianVictor Davis Hanson explains.
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Script:
The Vietnam War lasted ten years, cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation. It brought down a president, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat.
No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently, the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet, historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam War followed the pattern of the Korean War, which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia.
The U.S. had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s, but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President John F. Kennedy firmly believed in the “domino effect,” the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominos, to external communist aggression.
Kennedy thus hoped to stop Soviet- and Chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner President Harry Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam.
As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek. As with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages: no natural resources, or resources of any kind, that the United States needed to protect or wished to obtain. As with Korea, the aggressor was a communist government in the North intent on taking control of the South, and its military crossed an internationally recognized border to do so.
FollowingKennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so, Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence, authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war, but never pushing for total victory. In contrast, the North Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate, neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The president, Richard Nixon, pursued a two-prong strategy -- to turn over combat operations to the South Vietnamese, and to bomb North Vietnam. The effort brought the communists to the Paris Peace Talks. And by 1973, the North agreed to a general settlement, establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations – one communist, one non-communist—in the manner of North and South Korea.
However, the Watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the Democrats’ sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 mid-term election all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement.
They were right.
Without U.S. air support and material aid, the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union and the Chinese, the communists gained full control over the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders than during the Korean War. And the United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America of the 1950s.
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South Korea After the Korean War | US Army Documentary

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This film is a study of American soldiers helping a nation to rebuild itself. As seen in this film, the savagery and violence created by the war have been wiped away with the generosity and love of the American soldier on duty in Korea. Housing, public buildings, businesses and transportation facilities have been patched together or constructed from scratch. American Army know-how, Army supervision, and Army equipment have played a vital role in this rehabilitation, working closely with the Korean people. Just as important has been the creation of a new Republic of Korea Army. This small force which was available for Korea's defense prior to the outbreak of the fighting, is now a part of history. Thousands of inexperienced young men have been trained by battle-seasoned American and Korean soldiers and turned into a smooth, well-drilled modern army, equipped with American weapons.
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After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was occupied by Japan (1910–45). At the end of World War II, the Japanese surrendered to Soviet and U.S. forces who occupied the northern and southern halves of Korea, respectively.
Despite the initial plan of a unified Korea in the 1943 Cairo Declaration, escalating Cold War antagonism between the Soviet Union and the United States eventually led to the establishment of separate governments, each with its own ideology, leading to Korea's division into two political entities in 1948: North Korea and South Korea.
In theSouthSyngman Rhee, an opponent of communism, who had been backed and appointed by the United States as head of the provisional government, won the first presidential elections of the newly declared Republic of Korea in May. In theNorth, a former anti-Japanese guerrilla and communist activist, Kim Il-sung was appointed premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September. In October the Soviet Union declared Kim Il-sung's government as sovereign over both parts. The UN declared Rhee's government as "a lawful government having effective control and jurisdiction over that part of Korea where the UN Temporary Commission on Korea was able to observe and consult" and the Government "based on elections which was observed by the Temporary Commission" in addition to a statement that "this is the only such government in Korea." Both leaders began an authoritarian repression of their political opponents inside their region, seeking for a unification of Korea under their control. While South Korea's request for military support was denied by the United States, North Korea's military was heavily reinforced by the Soviet Union.
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, sparking the Korean War, the Cold War's first major conflict that continued until 1953. At the time, the Soviet Union had boycotted the United Nations (UN), thus forfeiting their veto rights. This allowed the UN to intervene in a civil war when it became apparent that the superior North Korean forces would unify the entire country. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea, with the later participation of millions of Chinese troops. After an ebb and flow that saw both sides almost pushed to the brink of extinction, and massive losses among Korean civilians in both the north and the south, the war eventually reached a stalemate. The 1953 armistice, never signed by South Korea, split the peninsula along the demilitarized zone near the original demarcation line. No peace treaty was ever signed, resulting in the two countries remaining technically at war. Over 1.2 million people died during the Korean War.
South Korea After the Korean War | US ArmyDocumentary

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Korean War "Summer Storm" 1959 US Army; The Big PIcture TV-445

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First in a 3-episode summary of t...

Korean War "Summer Storm" 1959 US Army; The Big PIcture TV-445

more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/korea_news.htmlFirst in a 3-episode summary of the Korean War, with guest war correspondent Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Episode 2: "Winter War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_0YWf8d38
Episode 3: "War's End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSba2AVfu98
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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The Korean War (in South Korea: Hangeul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, "Korean War"; in North Korea: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North and SouthKorea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.
Korea was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the closing days of World War II. In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and—by agreement with the United States—occupied Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south. By 1948, two separate governments had been set up. Both governments claimed to be the legitimate government of Korea, and neither side accepted the border as permanent. The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. On that day, the United Nations Security Council recognized this North Korean act as invasion and called for an immediate ceasefire. On 27 June, the Security Council adopted S/RES/83 : Complaint of aggression upon the Republic of Korea and decided the formation and dispatch of the U.N. Forces in Korea. The United States and other countries moved to defend South Korea.
Outmaneuvered and suffering heavy casualties in the first two months of the conflict, South Korean forces were forced back to the Pusan perimeter. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations contributed to the defense of South Korea, with the United States providing 88% of the soldiers. An amphibious UN counter-offensive at Inchon was launched, and cut off many of the North Korean attackers. Those that escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north all the way to the Yalu River at the Korea-China border, or into the mountainous interior. At this point, Chinese forces crossed over the Yalu and entered the war on the side of North Korea. Chinese intervention rapidly forced the United Nations Command back into South Korea, and the last two years of the war saw stalemate and attrition warfare. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice agreement was signed. The agreement established a new border between the Koreas close to the previous one and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile (4.0 km)-wide fortified buffer zone between them. Border incidents have continued to the present.
The war has been seen both as a civil war and as a proxy conflict in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. While not directly committing forces to the conflict, the Soviet Union provided strategic planning, weapons, and material aid to both the North Korean and Chinese armies. From a military science perspective, the Korean War was initially fought in a manner sequent of the mobile style of warfare that emerged in World War II, but by the second year of the conflict, fighting tended toward holding operations while the details of an armistice were debated. For the last two years of the conflict, World War I trench warfare tactics became the norm. The war also saw the first combat between jet aircraft—such as the F-86 Sabre used by the UN and the MiG-15 used by the Chinese—in warfare...
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Jim G. Lucas (June 22, 1914 – July 21, 1970) was a war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease-fire and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent." He also reported on the Vietnam War and wrote a book about his experiences, Dateline: Vietnam...

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Fleeing South Korea - 101 East

South Korea has built its success on a population driven to excel and willing to conform - for the good of their society.
The country has seen the fastest economic development of anywhere in the world, becoming synonymous with a highly educated workforce, cutting edge technology, and large powerful conglomerates.
But it's come at the cost of a stressful competitive society - with relentless working hours and a pressure to succeed.
Now, a new generation of South Koreans is saying enough is enough. They are voting for a more liberal and kinder lifestyle with their feet - leaving the country in droves.
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The War

And so our sun may set, we've been in winter for so longDon't give up on me yet, I will give you what you deserveThough our arguments are many, and your eyes are always soreI promise you we'll get there, this war is almost wonThis war is almost wonAnd lose if you have toOh lose if you have toCause I've been putting you through this hell for so longAs long this stands your choice my dear, don't lose or we have wonDon't let your heart grow cold, when you go to sleep upsetGrow with me till we're old, we will find a way to healThe bruises that will appear, from choices long agoHold on to our love my dear, don't think it's dead and doneWhen this war is almost wonAnd lose if you have toOh lose if you have toCause I've been putting you this hell for so longAs long this stands your choice my dear, don't lose or we have wonI'm running round in circles drinking whiskey and your wineTo drown the sound of endless questions in your mindForget the way I treated you and trust that I will love you betterGive me all your patience, give me time x 3

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